32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland

Kieran Allen

32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Pluto Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 April 2021
Pages
208
ISBN
9780745344188

32 Counties: The Failure of Partition and the Case for a United Ireland

Kieran Allen

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‘This is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today’ - Eamonn McCann

The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory strategy to defend the British Empire and has spawned a ‘carnival of reaction’ in Irish politics ever since. Over the last 100 years, conservative forces have dominated both states offering religious identity as a diversion from economic failures and inequality.

Through a sharp analysis of the history of partition, Kieran Allen rejects the view that the ‘two cultures’ of Catholic and Protestant communities lock people into permanent antagonism. Instead, the sectarian states have kept its citizens divided through political and economic measures like austerity, competition for reduced services and low wages.

Overturning conventional narratives, 32 Counties evokes the tradition of James Connolly and calls for an Irish unity movement from below to unite the North and the Republic into a secular, socialist and united Ireland.

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